Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education

Pour les podcasteurs

For kids making their own podcasts (or French teachers for that matter) try using these great sites to get hold of music to liven things up. All the music is Creative Commons Licence", which means you can use it without having to pay royalties.

From France, Belgium and Germany specifically, go to Jamendo (thanks Julien).

Any other Francophone or other foreign podsafe music providers out there?

Just for fun - listen to those old commercials

Via Boing Boing comes this great little treat. If you're like me (go on, admit it, you might well be) then listening to old radio commercials gives you a tingle of excitement, a feeling of discovering (or in some case rediscovering) those grainy Kodachrome days. My favourite is the 7UP commercial, from the time when musicians wrote real songs to sell products. Go on, listen and enjoy.

Singing Fish, or Le Poisson Chantant

I have just added The Singing Fish to my del.icio.us page. This is a fantastic internet search tool that looks only for audio and video related to your subject.

And in the classroom...
Type in 'Bonjour' and you have a fantastically cheesy rendition of 'Bonjour, Bonjour' to cheer your new S1s as they enter the classroom for the first time this August. You get a choice of a 30-second excerpt or the full song, just the music or even the video that goes along with it: great for data-projection.

Well worth bookmarking.